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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: prevent window from being raised
From:       David Boosalis <david () commandscape ! com>
Date:       2006-01-03 22:34:55
Message-ID: 200601031434.56035.david () commandscape ! com
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A WAG , but you may want to try a hack with XLowerWindow(screen,windowid) in 
the right KDE/QT Event handler.
-David

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 07:32, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Monday 02 January 2006 09:14, rico wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > i want write a workaround for my application for bug
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36065
> >
> > can i prevent my application from being raised even if "raise, activate
> > & pass klick"?
> > is there an event i can use?
>
>  No, there's no event and it's handled by the window manager. And it's not
> that trivial, you can't just disable the raising completely for the whole
> window, you want to prevent it only when e.g. doing DND. Implementing that
> requires communication between the window manager and the application
> (toolkit) about the actions.
>
>  I fact we had discussions about this on the wm spec list
> (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/), search keywords being
> "smarter raising". I even wrote a proof-of-concept implementation of that,
> I think KWin even still contains that code, but then the proposal got more
> complicated in order to be more generic or whatever and eventually faded
> into oblivion. If you're interested in resurrecting the issue I could find
> the latest version of the code, since it has already the communication part
> implemented (which should be the most difficult part for people who don't
> happen to be a WM maintainer :) ) I guess finishing the rest shouldn't be
> that difficult.

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David Boosalis
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